Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference
Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference
New Orleans, LA
Friday, March 24, 2023
presenters will be compensated for their participation
http://www.tennesseewilliamsstudies.org/conference/
Deadline for submissions:
November 15, 2022
Sessions at this one-day event do not consist of traditional conference papers. Instead, panels feature scholarly conversations that spring from Williams’s work and its many contexts and futures. We invite brief proposals for topics related to Tennessee Williams writ large.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- conceptual casting in productions of Williams’s plays
- non-US-based productions, films, and contexts
- production history and 21st-century dramaturgy
- BIPOC representation in text and productions
- connections between Williams and the work of other artists and creative professionals, including playwrights, poets, novelists, actors, and directors
- how Williams fits into LGBTQ+ history and the present
- intersectional feminist critiques
- disability in Williams’s texts and productions
- directing and adapting Williams in the 21st century
- Williams’s influence on the cinema in the US and abroad
All sessions but one will be held in person in New Orleans; there are no hybrid in-person and virtual sessions. There is one designated virtual session, which has a specific lightning-round format: each participant in the virtual session will show one image (two at most) and talk conversationally for 5 to 10 minutes about what they find compelling about the image and its relation to Williams.
Proposals should include your name, affiliation (if applicable), contact information (including phone number and email), an abstract of 250 words about a proposed topic, and a 100-word bio. Submissions for in-person panels should specify any A/V needs. If you are submitting for the virtual panel, please write “Submission for virtual panel” in the proposal and attach the image you will discuss.
Speakers invited to attend in person will not have a virtual option if their travel plans change. If there is a good chance you will be unable to travel to New Orleans, we ask that you please submit for the virtual session only, following the instructions above.
Deadline: Please email proposals to margit.longbrake@hnoc.org by Tuesday, November 15, 2022.
Stipends of $200 will be offered to panelists who attend in person; panelists on the virtual session will be offered stipends of $75. Panelists interested in submitting an essay on their topic to the Tennessee Williams Annual Review will be invited to schedule a virtual meeting with the managing editor of the Review, to discuss possibilities.
The conference organizers and the Tennessee Williams Annual Review are committed to reflecting a wide range of experience of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and physical ability. Scholars of the global majority are especially encouraged to submit proposals.